On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 16:55:41 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:17:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > With dpkg from your pu/multiarch/full branch, this does not work: > > > | # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.13-22_amd64.deb > > > | dpkg: error processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.13-22_amd64.deb (--install): > > > | libc-bin:amd64 2.13-22 (Multi-Arch: foreign) is not co-installable > > > with libc-bin:i386 2.13-22 (Multi-Arch: foreign) which is currently > > > installed > > > > Hum, right, it does not work currently. I mixed because I called > > cross-grade some tests in the test-suite that ensure that we can switch > > between various kind of M-A packages. > > > > So this is currently not supported "as-is" and it would require > > supplementary work. It could be fixed though and made to work with a > > supplementary --force option. > > Should it even require any forcing? Multi-Arch: foreign basically says > that the package is just as good no matter what architecture it is (as > long as you can execute binaries of that architecture). It seems to me > that if both packages are M-A: foreign then dpkg should just let you > install one over the top of the other as if it were an upgrade.
Right, forcing should not be required. I never had in mind that restriction, and I've just fixed that in my pu/multiarch/master branch (not tested yet though). > Such a change would make crossgrades much easier, and doesn't seem to > make anything else worse: for example if apt decides it needs to switch > architectures of an M-A: foreign package (I can't currently think of a > concrete reason why other than crossgrades or explicit requests, but > never mind) it probably has a good reason and it doesn't seem to help > anything for dpkg to require a --force option for it. Indeed. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111213081520.ga1...@gaara.hadrons.org
